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I don’t care if fly-tying is a “manly” hobby. Do you know how much time Will Graham spends in Michael’s each month buying craft supplies

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Hannibal 2x01 - “Kaiseki”

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Hannibal 3x09 - “And the Woman Clothed with the Sun”

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Will Graham + slutty eyebrow raise™

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all of them

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the fact that Hannibal and Will are both bottoms is the sole reason why their relationship is so dysfunctional

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hannibals a fun show

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remember when bedelia tried to manipulate will into not coming back later with his boyfriend to kill her and that is exactly what he threatened her with three episodes later

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“420 blaze it”, hannibal chuckles to himself, as he preheats his oven and prepares to bake a stoner into brownies.

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I want to talk about Bedelia du Maurier, because her character is fascinating and there’s not nearly enough meta on her. There are several good takes, so please look those up! I just thought I’d add my two cents to the mix, because I’ve been thinking about her lately.

See, the thing I love most about Bedelia is the way she’s contrasted with Hannibal. Whereas Hannibal is emotions - capricious, mercurial, malleable emotions - Bedelia is the absence of emotions. It was no wonder that she would be drawn to, and ultimately reject, Hannibal.

Let me elaborate. Hannibal is the ultimate hedonist. Everything he does is to further some goal he has to make him happier. And when he finally falls in love with Will Graham, he surrenders himself to the emotion. 

This is what Bedelia abhors. If Hannibal represents unabashed hedonism, Bedelia is ascetism. When we look between the two of them, we see their differences like a yawning chasm. Hannibal feels, perhaps as strongly as Will, just in different ways. Sometimes they are weapons to use against others, and sometimes they are weapons used against him. 

Bedelia, on the other hand, has two (perhaps three) main emotions we see from her. Fear, anger, and contempt. We see her fear when she deals with Hannibal in season 1 and season 3. We see her anger and contempt when she deals with Will in season 3. The rest of the time, what we see from her is cold indifference. Whereas Hannibal is a creature of emotion, Bedelia considers herself above such petty distractions.

When they first meet, and during season 1, what we see is Bedelia continuing her psychiatric relationship with Hannibal. He calls her a friend, and she rebuffs him, laying out that she views him as a patient and a colleague, nothing more. Through their interactions, we see Hannibal’s human veil lifted as he falls deeper and deeper into obsession with Will. Bedelia realises that Hannibal isn’t the cold, emotionless killer that she’s thought he is, and this spurs her to end their relationship. Emotions are dangerous to her, because they are unpredictable.

When she is confronted in season 2 as Hannibal’s accessory, she manipulates Will and Jack into offering her immunity by using her fear as a weapon. It’s something she uses until she gets what she wants, and then we see her drop it as she explains what Hannibal does. It’s part of why Will sees through her in season 3, because he knows as well as she does that her fear is often manufactured. 

And when we see her in Italy, she is trying to find a way to manipulate Hannibal. Her fear of him is real, and that is because he is so very unhinged and unpredictable in his heartache. One of the most important scenes with the two of them is the dinner with Sogliato. Hannibal kills Sogliato impulsively, and in contrast, Bedelia’s “mercy” of pulling out the ice pick is calculated and deliberate. 

Hannibal is heart broken and self-destructive. At last, his human veil is gone, and Bedelia sees him for what he is - human. Or, to use her words, he is a weak bird on the side of the road, and her first inclination is to crush him.

She doesn’t, and in her own way, tries to help him by encouraging him to eat Will and end the source of all of his emotions. With forgiveness comes peace and tranquillity. Bedelia is disappointed that Hannibal is not a cold, unfeeling monster, and that is why she rejects him in the end; her vision of him is shattered, just as Will’s vision of him is reconstructed. 

Is it any wonder that Hannibal, who sinned by loving too hard, is drawn to Will, who is mired in emotion? And is it any wonder that Bedelia, who considers the slightest emotion as weakness, rejects the both of them?

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inspired by this post

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It really does look black in the moonlight

So I watched Hannibal and arrived years late into the fandom

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Just realized on rewatch that in s1e4 Oeuf, Freddie Lounds got the connection of Will to Hannibal from ZELLER and they probably FUCKED.

He mutters “you used me” when he cuts her loose / the FBI lets her go

Oh Zee you dumb slut

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